| SEPULTURA Guitarist KISSER To Play Two Gigs With His 'First Band ...
"I'm going to do two gigs with old time friends, my first band ever, ESFINGE (SPHINX). We started in 1983, we all studied in the same school and had the same musical taste. We played from TWISTED SISTER to VENOM. It was a great way to learn the guitar and we had a great deal of fun. We performed everywhere, birthday parties, schools, carwash parties, etc....great memories."
SEPULTURA recently finished filming the second video from their "Dante XXI" album, for the song "Ostia". The clip was shot on March 3 at a studio in São Paulo prior to the band's departure for their European tour. During the following week, the video crew and the main actor shot the outdoor scenes in downtown São Paulo. The script, which adapts the story from the book "The Divine Comedy" to the modern days, was directed by Geraldo Moraes.
Clip: Learning Kanji Makes Kids Dance
Japan is swimming in cool self-help software. Everywhere else is not. Like the above game, Tadashii Kanji Kakitori-kun, which is designed to help grade schoolers master basic kanji. There are also a couple other games like Lethal Kung Fu: Kanji Dragon and Doko Demo Kanji Quiz. My favorite: Kanji Kentei DS. Some of these are good for foreigners with some Japanese knowledge, but always makes me wonder why these types of games aren't rolled out elsewhere. Think I remember McWhertor saying he'd be interested in learning Kanji. Nintendo of America, you listening? Brian Ashcraft Learn Kanji [Japan Probe] .
Consultant offers GOP language advice
In his opening remarks Thursday to the Lincoln Club of Fresno County, Republican pollster and consultant Frank Luntz minced no words: "It really stinks to be a Republican these days."Luntz is enormously influential, so for those Republicans eating lunch at the Ramada Inn on Shaw Avenue, the words were especially painful.The frequent guest on shows such as "Meet the Press" and "Hannity & Colmes" and author of the book, "Words that Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear," went on to say that if the party doesn't turn things around in the next year, they'd better get used to the phrase "President Clinton."Luntz gave the group some interesting insights. Among them: Talk radio -- long the bastion of conservative America -- is past its prime, replaced by the Internet. And in that medium, liberals and Democrats rule through such blogs as MoveOn.org and the Huffington Post.
Guide to festivals, 2007
If you can pull it from the waters, pluck it from a garden or chop it down in a swamp, chances are you can find a festival in south Louisiana that celebrates it. From the Des Allemandes Catfish Festival to the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival to the Patterson Cypress Sawmill Festival, south Louisianians are game for gathering in the name of our natural resources to eat, drink and play. If you can't grow it, then you can learn to play it, dance to it or simply float along our waterways in it. Some events, such as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival, attract people from around the world. Others, such as Visitation of Our Lady Cajun Festival in Marrero, draw a smaller neighborhood crowd. No matter the size, all are staffed by locals dedicated to the cause of reveling in what makes south Louisiana such a rich place to live.
A living canvas
Phillips opened the only tattoo shop in Mayes County approximately three months ago. Da Vinci Steel is located in Salina in the old Hill Top Cafe at the intersection of Highway 20 and 82.Phillips named the shop Da Vinci Steel because he studied about Leonardo Da Vinici in art appreciation under Ron Dryden. Phillips said Da Vinci was into drawing and studying human anatomy.Phillips took the name Da Vinci and added steel since that is what he uses to apply tattoo ink.However, Phillips joked a local waitress told him some of the older guys who come into town to drink coffee think his name is Da Vinci."They ask, 'Did you get your tattoo from Mr. Da Vinci'," he laughed.The shop has been completely cleaned up and redone, so much so that no one would ever know a restaurant was housed inside.The walls throughout the entire building are painted black, even the windows on the front.Visitors in the lobby area can watch Phillips in action through a window which overlooks the tattoo area.Phillips said being able to see an artist work is an important part of getting a tattoo.Of course, Phillips said the blinds can be drawn for someone who wants a little privacy.Pictures of his work are available in albums and thousands of samples of clipart are just a click of a mouse away.He takes whatever ideas a clients bring and works with them, sometimes suggesting slight changes to create the perfect design.Phillips began drawing at a young age, which he joked greatly attributed to his C average in school.At the age of 18, he went to Tontitown, Ark., with some friends to get his first tattoo out of a bus.He got a yin-yang, which is covered up today.This sparked his interest in doing tattoo work.Phillips began learning from a friend of the family who did underground tattoo work in Oklahoma.He watched and learned and eventually, figured he could make some money doing tattoos.Being artistic, Phillips tried different forms of art such as glass etching, airbrush and oil painting, but found his niche in tattoo work.Phillips purchased his first tattoo kit and had another tattoo artist do an outline of tribal design on him.
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